Manual of Standard Traffic Signs & Pavement Markings

Manual of

Standard Traffic Signs

& Pavement Markings

September 2000

Your Comments on this Manual

Any comments on this manual or its contents

may be directed to:

Traffic & Electrical Section

Ministry of Transportation and Highways

Engineering Branch

4B - 940 Blanshard Street

Victoria, B.C. V8W 3E6

This edition replaces the 1998 Interim Edition

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

British Columbia. Ministry of Transportation and Highways.

Engineering Branch.

Manual of standard traffic signs & pavement markings

Previously published: 1997.

ISBN 0-7726-4362-8

1. Traffic signs and signals - Standards - British Columbia.

2. Road markings - Standards - British Columbia. I Title.

TE228.B74 2000

388.3'122'0218711 C00-960304-2

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HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL

The Decimal Indexing System

This manual consists of two parts and numerous chapters and

appendices. Each chapter is divided into sections and, where

necessary, subsections. Sections and subsections are identified by a

decimal numbering system; for example, the notation 1.6.2 refers to

Chapter 1, Section 6, Subsection 2. These numbers should not be

confused with the Sign Numbers which are used to identify individual

signs, for example, when ordering.

As individual pages throughout the manual are not numbered, the

location of any subject within the text depends on the decimal indexing

system, and the numerical progression through each chapter.

Revisions and Additions

It may be necessary to add new sections and subsections or to revise

some of the existing ones. By using a decimal indexing system and

excluding page numbers, it will be possible to insert additional material

and still maintain numerical continuity.

Each page has a publication date at the bottom corner. Subsequent

updates will have the new revision date in the same location.

Language:

Different words are used throughout the manual to emphasize the

degree to which a policy, warrant or criteria requires adherence too.

The following defines the intent of the commonly used word:

SHALL:

Describes a mandatory condition - it must be done regardless of

consequence or price.

SHOULD:

Describes an advisory condition - it is desirable to do but not

necessarily mandatory.

MAY:

Describes a permissive condition - it is optional to do but in no way

necessary

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations have been used in the text.

Reference Letters for Functional Groups of Signs:

C = Construction and Maintenance

I = Information

R = Regulatory

TW = Temporary Warning

G = Guide

P = Parking & Stopping

SP = School & Pedestrian

W = Warning

Note: Construction & Maintenance signs (C) and Temporary Warning signs

(TW) are detailed in the "Traffic Control Manual for Work on Roadways."

Sign Shapes:

Diam. = Diamond

Rect. = Rectangle

Tri. = Triangle

Oct. = Octagon

Sq. = Square

Pent. = Pentagon

Trap. = Trapezoid

Sign Colours:

B = Black

Bl. = Blue

Or.= Orange R = Red

Br.= Brown

W = White

G = Green

Y = Yellow

Metric Measurements:

cm = centimetre

km/h = kilometre per hour

t

= tonne

km = kilometre

m = metre

kg = kilogram

Suffixes:

BUS

FARM

LOG

RV

T

xx

= Buses

= Farm Trucks

= Log Trucks

= Recreational Vehicles

= Tab

= Oversize

CHIP = Chip Trucks

L

= Left

R

= Right

SP

= Special

x

= Oversize

xxx

= Oversize

The letters L and R identify left and right equivalents of the same sign.

The letter T denotes a tab which is generally used only with the sign having

the same number less suffix.

Miscellaneous:

Bgd. = Background

Refl. = Reflectorized

Fl. = Fully

Sy. = Symbol

Mess. = Message

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